Counter display box



March 19, 1929. A w ENGEL I 1,705,606

COUNTER DISPLAY BOX Filed Aug. 10; 1925 2 SheetS-Shegt 2 JW vii/@225 wh; I;

Fatented Mar. 7 19, i929.

' Q ALBEnr'w. :anenn, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COUNTER. nIsrLAYBox.

' The purpose this invention is to provide I a receptacle in the nature ofa folded paper.

box adapted to serve as a shipping carton for merchandise, and also arranged to be used on the store counter as a dispenser for the goods and as a display device for advertising them. It consists of certain features and elements of construction as herein shown and described, and as indicated by the claims In the drawings:

Figure 1 1s a plan View of a blank for a box embodying this invention.

1 blank for the box.

Figure 2is a p-lanview of a supplemental Figure? 1s a perspective viewshowing the Y front and side of the box with the cover in raised position giving access to thecontents and serving as a display area for advertising matter. f I Figure 4 is a side elevation with parts broken away. V Figure closed position.

Referring firstto Figure 1, the front wall of the box is identified in the blankat 1 with a bottom wall, 2, and a top or cover,'3, extending in alignment therefrom; The side walls of the box are made of double thick- "ness, and the inner laminae are shown at 4-4 extending laterally from the blank of the bottom, 2. The back wall, 5, is also attached to the bottom, 2, for folding upwardlythere-h from.

Figure 2 shows a supplemental blank-in the form of a strip which includes a duplicate front wall, 6,and duplicate side walls, 77

with looking tabs, 8, extending from said side walls forv folding around the back wall, 5, to. be engaged in the slotted openings, 9, formed therein. The tabs, 8, and intermembering openings of the back wall, 5, are more fully described and claimed in my co-pending ap-' plication Serial Number 593,27 3 filed Oct. 9, 1922. i

When the two blanks are assembled, the

front wall, 6, is placed inside lthe wall, 1 but the duplicate sidewalls, 7,7, are lapped outside of the corresponding side walls, 4, 4, thus I providing two'separated laminae at each side of the box, between which are fitted the lateral flaps, 10, extending from the cover, 3.

These flaps, 10, are notched at 11 for engaging the upper edges of the side walls,'as shown in Figures 3 and 4 holding the cover in up.- raised and preferablyoblique position. For

5 is a rear elevation of the box in limiting this opening position of the cover.

thefinner side walls, 4, are formed with curved and upwardly trendingslits,12, and the flaps,

10, are providedwith stop lugs, 13,,injsaid- 7 slits so asto arrest the opening movement of the cover as the lugs re'aeh. the upper ends of the slit asshown-in Figure 4. When thus opened, the box may be placed on the counter v. i

with the front wall, 1, and c0ver,3, facing the custonielgand preferably provlded with advertising matter describing the goods,

while the goods themselves contained inthe box are readily accessible from behind the 1 counter.

In. order that the box may serve as a ship ping carton I provide a flap,14, attached to the cover, 3, at the side opposite the edge which is=hinged to the front wall, 1, and this flap is formed with laterally pointing triangular flaps, 15,"so that whenthe cover is'closed and the flap, 14, is folded down against the back wall of the box, these tabs, 15, may be lappedunder similar but oppositely pointing tabs, 16, which are associated with the tabs, 8, j

on the supplemental blank. This-holds thev cover securely in closed position.

When the cover is raised tothe position,

and its upwardly presented surface may also serve to display advertising matter. Preferably forholding it upright I attach a strip, 17 of soft tinior-like metal to the under sur f face of-the cover, 3, as by means of'a: piece of gummed paper indicated at 18,:and the projecting portion of the strip, 17 may be bent Figure 4. V

l claimi 'm I v Y 1. A folded box including side walls and upwardly back of the flap, 14, as shown in shown in Figure 3 the flap, 14, may be turned upwardly 'into'a substantiallyvertical plane, T i

a front wall'with a top or cover hinged. to I upwardly trending slits {which stop short ,of their upper edgesand the cover flapshaving 'lugsengagedin-saidslits for limiting the upwardly swlngmg movement'of the cover.

2. A folded box including side walls and the latter, and lateral 'fiaps on said cover- I lapping the side walls, the'side wallshaving a front wall with a top or cover hinged to the f latter, and lateral flaps on saidcover lapping the side walls,theside walls each comprising p I two separated laminae and the'cover flaps ex tending between said laminae, the inner m'e'm-, i ber'of each-side wall having an upwardly trending slitstopping short of the upperedge interlocking engagement, with the back wall 3. Arfolded box construction comprising a blank which includes top having flap portions extending from opposite edges and bottom walls, front and back walls and side walls and :1

the second blank which includes aduplicate front wall, duplicate sidewalls hinged there to and tabs extending from the side walls for of thefirstblank, said second blank being assembled with its duplicate front wall in- 7 sidethe front Wall of the first'blankand with "its side walls overlapping outside the sides of the first blankand said flaps of the cover being interposed between'the respective side walls of said blanks. 7

4. A folded box including side walls and a front wall with a top or cover hinged to the latter, and lateral flaps formed to rest on the upper edges of the side walls tohold the cover in up-raised position, said side walls having upwardly-trending slits stopping short ,oftheir upper edges and the cover flaps having lugs engaged in said slits forlimiting the opening movement of the cover.

5. In the combination defined in claim 1, said slitsin the side walls beingarcuately formed about a center in alignment with the hinged connection of the cover, whereby'said lugs maybe maintained in sliding guidance in the slits in all permissible positions of the ALBERT w. 'ENGEL; 

